This is country western folk ballad and a pretty good effort for a Japanese band. For that, there are a few flinching moments.Īnd now the cover of "I Shall Be Released", which is missing the final "d" in the official track listing. He sounds like quieting down makes it harder for him to hit the notes right. I'd say it could have worked out alright except that Lush's vocals are not very lush. This is out first real slow and sentimental track. One thing is for sure, guitarist Tsutomu Ogawa is pretty good at coming up with heavy rock riffs!Īlright, "Reminiscence" is next and it begins like a classic Vanilla Fudge song with organ and hard guitars, then shifts into a slower gear with acoustic guitar and electric lead. Thankfully, the next track is "Love Is You", another heavy rock track with some cool riffs and mood. On its own, I'd say the song would be pretty good, but the derivative lyrics just shout "copy cat!" and I'm afraid it loses points for that. It is very clearly a song heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin's "Since I've Been Lovin' You", most obviously in the lyric "Yes, I'm working everyday from early in the morning, babe / Til late at night everyday / It's such a drag, baby". "Love That Binds Me" is a mid-tempo, blues-based, bummed out dude song that includes piano. It's a pretty killer track for some straight forward hard/heavy rock of 1971. While Black Sabbath influence is likely there, the riffs sound closer to their compatriots Flower Travelin' Band although vocalist Juni Lush (credited as Joko Lush in my CD copy) has more of a hard rock voice. ![]() The first track, "Grease It Out" certainly shows the band's desire to play loud and heavy. So, anyway, here we have a band from Japan lead by their guitarist with aspirations for playing loud, heavy music in the vein of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, and then got told by their record label to add some ballads and a cover song in hopes of broadening their potential audience. Searched again and it came up right away. I created a page for them, wrote a bio, and then found there was a page already somewhere. Take a listen to all three songs, and figure out if Eminem sampling Utada, or “Kingdom Hearts” for that matter, is fake news or not.Wow! I did a search for this band twice on this site and got nothing. So who are the three Japanese names linked to “Good Guy”? One of them, Yutaka Yamada, is the writer of “Glassy Sky.” Nowhere to be found is Utada Hikaru, the writer of “Simple & Clean.” Also nowhere to be found is Shimomura Yoko, the person behind the music of “Kingdom Hearts.” Looking at the credits for the Eminem album, the songwriters listed for “Good Guy” are Marshall Mathers (Eminem), Jessie Reyez (who is featured on the song), Ray Fraser, Norio Aono, Yutaka Yamada, and Lisa Gomamoto. Some, including the music site Genius, have said that the song that is sampled in “Good Guy” is Utada Hikaru’s “Simple & Clean.” But Genius also says that “Good Guy” samples the song “Glassy Sky” from the anime “Tokyo Ghoul.” But when I do anything I try to make it to where it’s not fully recognizable. That’s why we had to deal with the clearance. I basically made it unrecognizable, but I know they would have still found it. Filtered it, did some chops, did some processing to it. Shout out Japanese videogames and Japanimation for inspiration. It’s one of the dopest melodies I’ve ever heard. It’s a Japanese videogame, and that’s the theme song from it. What about “Good Guy,” what’s the sample there? In an interview with Rolling Stone, one of the album’s producers, Illadaproducer, said that he sampled the video game “Kingdom Hearts” for one of the album’s tracks, “Good Guy.” ![]() On August 31, Eminem surprise released his new album, “Kamikaze.” But there is something else Japanese about the album besides the title.
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